PrefaceChapter One: THE MEETING OF CULTURESSignificant Events America Before Columbus
The Civilizations of the South/The Civilizations of the North/Tribal CulturesEurope Looks Westward
Commerce and Nationalism/Christopher Columbus/The Conquistadors/The Spanish Empire/Spanish America/Northern Outposts/The Empire at High Tide/Biological and Cultural Exchanges/Africa and AmericaThe Arrival of the English
The Commercial Incentive/The Religious Incentive/The English in Ireland/The French and the Dutch in America/The First English Settlements/RoanokeWhere Historians Disagree: Why Do Historians So Often Differ?Where Historians Disagree: The American Population Before ColumbusAmerica in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American HistoryConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Two: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDSSignificant EventsThe Early Chesapeake
The Founding of Jamestown/Reorganization/Tobacco/Expansion/Exchanges of Agricultural Technology/Maryland and the Calverts/Turbulent Virginia/Bacon's RebellionThe Growth of New England
Plymouth Plantation/The Expansion of New England/Settlers and Natives/The Pequot War, King Philip's War, and the Technology of BattleThe Restoration Colonies
The English Civil War/The Carolinas/New Netherland, New York, and New Jersey/The Quaker ColoniesBorderlands and Middle Grounds
The Caribbean Islands/Masters and Slaves in the Caribbean/Borderlands and Middle Grounds/The Southwestern Borderlands/The Southeast Borderlands/The Founding of Georgia/Middle GroundsThe Evolution of the British Empire
The Drive for Reorganization/The Dominion of New England/The "Glorious Revolution"The American Environment: The Other PilgrimsConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Three: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICASignificant EventsThe Colonial Population
Indentured Servitude/Birth and Death/Medicine in the Colonies/Women and Families in the Chesapeake/Women and Families in New England/The Beginnings of Slavery in British America/Changing Sources of European ImmigrationThe Colonial Economies
The Southern Economy/Northern Economic and Technological Life/The Extent and Limits of Technology/The Rise of Colonial Commerce/The Rise of ConsumerismPatterns of Society
The Plantation/Plantation Slavery/The Puritan Community/The Witchcraft Phenomenon/CitiesAwakenings and Enlightenment
The Pattern of Religions/The Great Awakening/The Enlightenment/Education/The Spread of Science/Concepts of Law and PoliticsWhere Historians Disagree: The Origins of SlaveryPatterns of Popular Culture: Colonial AlmanacsConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITIONSignificant EventsLoosening Ties
A Tradition of Neglect/The Colonies DividedThe Struggle for the Continent
New France and the Iroquois Nation/Anglo-French Conflicts/The Great War for the EmpireThe New Imperialism
Burdens of Empire/The British and the Tribes/The Colonial ResponseStirrings of Revolt
The Stamp Act Crisis/The Townshend Program/The Boston Massacre/The Philosophy of Revolt/The Tea ExcitementCooperation and War
New Sources of Authority/Lexington and ConcordPatterns of Popular Culture: Taverns in Revolutionary MassachusettsConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Five: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONSignificant EventsThe States United
Defining American War Aims/The Decision for Independence/Responses to Independence/Mobilizing for WarThe War for Independence
The First Phase: New England/The Second Phase: The Mid-Atlantic Region/The Iroquois and the British/Securing Aid from Abroad/The Final Phase: The South/Winning the PeaceWar and Society
Loyalists and Minorities/The War and Slavery/Native Americans and the Revolution/Women's Rights and Women's Roles/The War EconomyThe Creation of State Governments
The Assumptions of Republicanism/The First State Constitutions/Revising State Governments/Toleration and SlaveryThe Search for a National Government
The Confederation/Diplomatic Failures/The Confederation and the Northwest/Indians and the Western Lands/Debts, Taxes, and Daniel ShaysWhere Historians Disagree: The American RevolutionAmerica in the World: The Age of RevolutionThe American Environment: The GridConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Six: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLICSignificant EventsFraming a New Government
Advocates of Centralization/A Divided Convention/Compromise/The Constitution of 1787/Federalists and Antifederalists/Completing the StructureFederalists and Republicans
Hamilton and the Federalists/Enacting the Federalist Program/The Republican OppositionEstablishing National Sovereignty
Securing the Frontier/Native Americans and the New Nation/Maintaining Neutrality/Jay's Treaty and Pinckney's TreatyThe Downfall of the Federalists
The Election of 1796/The Quasi War with France/Repression and Protest/The "Revolution" of 1800Where Historians Disagree: The Background of the ConstitutionConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Seven: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERASignificant EventsThe Rise of Cultural Nationalism
Patterns of Education/Medicine and Science/Cultural Aspirations in the New Nation/Religious Skepticism/The Second Great AwakeningStirrings of Industrialism
The Industrial Revolution in England/Technology in America/Transportation Innovations/The Rising CitiesJefferson the President
The Federal City and the "People's President"/Dollars and Ships/Conflict with the CourtsDoubling the National Domain
Jefferson and Napoleon/The Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark Explore the West/The Burr ConspiracyExpansion and War
Conflict on the Seas/Impressment/'Peaceable Coercion'/Tecumseh and the Prophet/Florida and War FeverThe War of 1812
Battles with Tribes/Battles with the British/The Revolt of New England/The Peace SettlementPatterns of Popular Culture: Horse RacingConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Eight: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISMSignificant EventsA Growing Economy
Banking, Currency, and Protection/TransportationExpanding Westward
The Great Migrations/White Settlers in the Old Northwest/The Plantation System in the Southwest/Trade and Trapping in the Far West/Eastern Images of the WestThe "Era of Good Feelings"
The End of the First Party System/John Quincy Adams and Florida/The Panic of 1819Sectionalism and Nationalism
The Missouri Compromise/Marshall and the Court/The Court and the Tribes/The Latin American Revolution and the Monroe DoctrineThe Revival of Opposition
The "Corrupt Bargain"/The Second President Adams/Jackson TriumphantConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Nine: JACKSONIAN AMERICASignificant EventsThe Rise of Mass Politics
The Expanding Electorate/The Legitimization of Party/"President of the Common Man"Our Federal Union
Calhoun and Nullification/The Rise of Van Buren/The Webster-Hayne Debate/The Nullification CrisisThe Removal of the Indians
White Attitudes Towards the Tribes/The Black Hawk War/The "Five Civilized Tribes"/Trails of Tears/The Meaning of RemovalJackson and the Bank War
Biddle's Institution/The Taney CourtThe Changing Face of American Politics
Democrats and Whigs/Van Buren and the Panic of 1837/The Log Cabin Campaign/The Frustration of the Whigs/Whig DiplomacyWhere Historians Disagree: The "Age of Jackson"Patterns of Popular Culture: The Penny PressConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Ten: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTIONSignificant EventsThe Changing American Population
The American Population, 1820-1840/Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860/The Rise of NativismTransportation, Communications, and Technology
The Canal Age/The Early Railroads/The Triumph of the Rails/Innovations in Communications and JournalismCommerce and Industry
The Expansion of Business, 1820-1840/The Emergence of the Factory/Advances in Technology/Innovations in Corporate OrganizationMen and Women at Work
Recruiting a Native Work Force/The Immigrant Work Force/The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition/Fighting for ControlPatterns of Industrial Society
The Rich and the Poor/Social Mobility/Middle-Class Life/The Changing Family/Women and the 'Cult of Democracy'/Leisure ActivitiesThe Agricultural North
Northeastern Agriculture/The Old Northwest/Rural Life The American Environment: The Flow of WaterPatterns of Popular Culture: Shakespeare in AmericaConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Eleven: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTHSignificant EventsThe Cotton Economy
The Rise of King Cotton/Southern Trade and Industry/Sources of Southern DifferenceWhite Society in the South
The Planter Class/Honor/The "Southern Lady"/The Plain FolkSlavery: The "Peculiar Institution"
Varieties of Slavery/Life Under Slavery/Slavery in the Cities/Free African Americans/The Slave Trade/Slave ResistanceThe Culture of Slavery
Language and Music/African-American Religion/The Slave FamilyWhere Historians Disagree: The Character of SlaveryPatterns of Popular Culture: The Slaves' MusicConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Twelve: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORMSignificant EventsThe Romantic Impulse
Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting/Literature and Other Quest for Liberation/Literature in the Antebellum South/The Transcendentalists/The Defense of Nature/Visions of Utopia/Redefining Gender Roles/The MormonsRemaking Society
Revivalism, Morality, and Order/The Temperance Crusade/Health Fads and Phrenology/Medical Science/Reforming Education/Rehabilitation/The Indian Reservation/The Rise of FeminismThe Crusade Against Slavery
Early Opposition to Slavery/Garrison and Abolitionism/Black Abolitionists/Anti-Abolitionism/Abolitionism DividedAmerica in the World: The Abolition of SlaveryPatterns of Popular Culture: Sentimental NovelsConclusionFor Further Reading
Chapter Thirteen: THE IMPENDING CRISISSignificant EventsLooking Westward
Manifest Destiny/Americans in Texas/Tensions Between the United States and Mexico/Oregon/The Westward Migration/Life on the TrailExpansion and War
The Democrats and Expansion/The Southwest and California/The Mexican WarThe Sectional Debate
Slavery and the Territories/The California Gold Rush/Rising Sectional Tensions/The Compromise of 1850The Crises of the 1850s
The Uneasy Truce/"Young America"/Slavery, Railroads, and the West/The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy/"Bleeding Kansas"/The Free-Soil Ideology/The Pro-Slavery Argument/Buchanan and Depression/The Dred Scott Decision/Deadlock over Kansas/The Emergence of Lincoln/John Brown's Raid/The Election of LincolnPatterns of Popular Culture: LyceumsConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Fourteen: THE CIVIL WARSignificant EventsThe Secession Crisis
The Withdrawal of the South/The Failure of Compromise/Fort Sumter/The Opposing SidesThe Mobilization of the North
Economic Measures/Raising the Union Armies/Wartime Politics/The Politics of Emancipation/African Americans and the Union Cause/The War and Economic Development/Women, Nursing, and the WarThe Mobilization of the South
The Confederate Government/Money and Manpower/States' Rights versus Centralization/Economic and Social Effects of the WarStrategy and Diplomacy
The Commanders/The Role of Sea Power/Europe and the Disunited States/The American West and the WarThe Course of Battle
The Technology of Battle/The Opening Clashes, 1861/The Western Theater/The Virginia Front, 1862/1863, Year of Decision/The Last Stage, 1864-1865Where Historians Disagree: The Causes of the Civil WarAmerica in the World: The Consolidation of NationsPatterns of Popular Culture: Baseball and the Civil WarConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTHSignificant EventsThe Problems of Peacemaking
The Aftermath of War and Emancipation/Competing Notions of Freedom/Issues of Reconstruction/Plans for Reconstruction/The Death of Lincoln/Johnson and "Restoration"Radical Reconstruction
The Black Codes/The Fourteenth Amendment/The Congressional Plan/The Impeachment of the PresidentThe South in Reconstruction
The Reconstruction Governments/Education/Landownership and Tenancy/The Crop-Lien System/The African-American Family in FreedomThe Grant Administration
The Soldier President/The Grant Scandals/The Greenback Question/Republican DiplomacyThe Abandonment of Reconstruction
The Southern States "Redeemed"/The Ku Klux Klan Acts/Waning Northern Commitment/The Compromise of 1877/The Legacies of ReconstructionThe New South
The "Redeemers"/Industrialization and the "New South"/Tenants and Sharecroppers/African Americans and the New South/The Birth of Jim CrowWhere Historians Disagree: ReconstructionPatterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel ShowWhere Historians Disagree: The Origins of SegregationConclusionFor Further Reference

Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WESTSignificant EventsThe Societies of the Far West
The Western Tribes/Hispanic New Mexico/Hispanic California and Texas/The Chinese Migration/Anti-Chinese Sentiments/Migration from The EastThe Changing Western Economy
Labor in the West/The Arrival of the Miners/The Cattle KingdomThe Romance of the West
The Western Landscape/The Cowboy Culture/The Idea of the Frontier/Frederick Jackson Turner/The Loss of UtopiaThe Dispersal of the Tribes
White Tribal Policies/The Indian Wars/The Dawes ActThe Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer
Farming on the Plains/Commercial Agriculture/The Farmers' Grievances/The Agrarian MalaisePatterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West ShowWhere Historians Disagree: The "Frontier" and the WestConclusion for Further Reference
Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACYSignificant EventsSources of Industrial Growth
Industrial Technologies/The Airplane and the Automobile/Research and Development/The Science of Production/Railroad Expansion/The Corporation/Consolidating Corporate America/The Trust and the Holding CompanyCapitalism and Its Critics
The "Self-Made Man"/Survival of the Fittest/The Gospel of Wealth/Alternative Visions/The Problems of MonopolyIndustrial Workers in the New Economy
The Immigrant Work Force/Wages and Working Conditions/Women and Children at Work/The Struggle to Unionize/The Great Railroad Strike/The Knights of Labor/The AFL/The Homestead Strike/The Pullman Strike/Sources of Labor WeaknessThe American Environment: The Locomotive's Magic WandPatterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger/Conclusion for Further Reference
Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITYSignificant EventsThe Urbanization of America
The Lure of the City/Migrations/The Ethnic City/Assimilation/ExclusionThe Urban Landscape
The Creation of Public Space/Housing the Well-to-Do/Housing the Workers and the Poor/Urban Transportation/The "Skyscraper"Strains of Urban Life
Fire and Disease/Environmental Degradation/Urban Poverty/Crime and Violence/Fear of the City/The Machine and the BossThe Rise of Mass Consumption
Patterns of Income and Consumption/Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses/Department Stores/Women as ConsumersLeisure in the Consumer Society
Redefining Leisure/Spectator Sports/Music and Theater/The Movies/Working-Class Leisure/The Fourth of July/Private Pursuits/Mass CommunicationsHigh Culture in the Age of the City
The Literature of Urban America/Art in the Age of the City/The Impact of Darwinism/Toward Universal Schooling/Education for WomenAmerica in the World: Global MigrationsPatterns of Popular Culture: Coney IslandConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISISSignificant Events The Politics of Equilibrium
The Party System/The National Government/Presidents and Patronage/Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff/New Public IssuesThe Agrarian Revolt
The Grangers/The Farmers' Alliances/The Populist Constituency/Populist IdeasThe Crisis of the 1890s
The Panic of 1893/The Silver Question"A Cross of Gold"
The Emergence of Bryan/The Conservative Victory/McKinley and RecoveryPatterns of Popular Culture: The Chautauquas Where Historians Disagree: PopulismConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty: THE IMPERIAL REPUBLICSignificant EventsStirrings of Imperialism
The New Manifest Destiny/Hemispheric Hegemony/Hawaii and SamoaWar with Spain
Controversy over Cuba/"A Splendid Little War"/Seizing the Philippines/The Battle for Cuba/Puerto Rico and the United States/The Debate over the PhilippinesThe Republic as Empire
Governing the Colonies/The Philippine War/The Open Door/A Modern Military System America in the World: ImperialismPatterns of Popular Culture: Yellow JournalismConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-One: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISMSignificant EventsThe Progressive Impulse
Varieties of Progressivism/The Muckrakers/The Social Gospel/The Settlement House Movement/The Allure of Expertise/The Professions/Women and the ProfessionsWomen and Reform
The "New Woman"/The Clubwomen/Woman SuffrageThe Assault on the Parties
Early Attacks/Municipal Reform/New Forms of Governance/Statehouse Progressivism/Parties and Interest GroupsSources of Progressive Reform
Labor, the Machine, and Reform/Western Progressives/African Americans and ReformCrusades for Order and Reform
The Temperance Crusade/The Dream of Socialism/Decentralization and RegulationWhere Historians Disagree: Progressive ReformConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Two: THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORMSignificant EventsTheodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency
The Accidental President/Government, Capital, and Labor/"The Square Deal"/Roosevelt and Conservation/Roosevelt and Preservation/The Hetch Hetchy Controversy/The Panic of 1907The Troubled Succession
Taft and the ProgressivesThe Return of Roosevelt/Spreading Insurgency/Roosevelt versus TaftWoodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
Woodrow Wilson/The Scholar as President/Retreat and AdvanceThe "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917
Roosevelt and "Civilization"/Protecting the "Open Door" in Asia/The Iron-Fisted Neighbor/The Panama Canal/Taft and "Dollar Diplomacy"/Diplomacy and MoralityThe American Environment: Saving the ForestsConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Three: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WARSignificant EventsThe Road To War
The Collapse of the European Peace/Wilson's Neutrality/Preparedness versus Pacifism/A War for Democracy"War Without Stint"
Entering the War/The American Expeditionary Force/The Military Struggle/The New Technology of WarfareThe War and American Society
Organizing the Economy for War/Labor and the War/Economic and Social Results of the WarThe Search for Social Unity
The Peace Movement/Selling the War and Suppressing DissentThe Search for a New World Order
The Fourteen Points/Early Obstacles/The Paris Peace Conference/The Ratification Battle/Wilson's OrdealA Society in Turmoil
Industry and Labor/The Demands of African Americans/The Red Scare/The Retreat from IdalismPatterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern RevivalismConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Four: "THE NEW ERA"Significant EventsThe New Economy
Technology and Economic Growth/Economic Organization/Labor in the New Era/Women and Minorities in the Work Force/The "American Plan"/Agricultural Technology and the Plight of the FarmerThe New Culture
Consumerism/Advertising/The Movies and Broadcasting/Modernist Religion/Professional Women/Changing Ideas of Motherhood/The "Flapper": Image and Reality/Pressing for Women's Rights/Education and Youth/The Decline of the "Self-Made Man"/The Disenchanted/The Harlem Renaissance/The Southern AgrariansA Conflict of Cultures
Prohibition/Nativism and the Klan/Religious Fundamentalism/The Democrats' OrdealRepublican Government
Harding and Coolidge/Government and BusinessPatterns of Popular Culture: Dance HallsConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GREAT DEPRESSIONSignificant EventsThe Coming of the Great Depression
The Great Crash/Causes of the Depression/Progress of the DepressionThe American People in Hard Times
Unemployment and Relief/African Americans and the Depression/Mexican Americans in Depression America/Asian Americans in Hard Times/Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression/Depression FamiliesThe Depression and American Culture
Depression Values/Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression/Radio/The Movies/Popular Literature and Journalism/The Popular Front and the LeftThe Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
The Hoover Program/Popular Protest/The Election of 1932/The "Interregnum"Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great DepressionAmerica in the World: The Global DepressionThe American Environment: Dust BowlPatterns of Popular Culture: The Films of Frank CapraConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Six: THE NEW DEAL Significant EventsLaunching the New Deal
Restoring Confidence/Agricultural Adjustment/Industrial Recovery/Regional Planning/Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market/The Growth of Federal ReliefThe New Deal in Transition
Critics of the New Deal/The "Second New Deal"/Labor Militancy/Organizing Battles/Social Security/New Directions in Relief/The 1936 "Referendum"The New Deal in Disarray
The Court Fight/Retrenchment and RecessionLimits and Legacies of the New Deal
The Idea of the "Broker State"/African Americans and The New Deal/The New Deal and the "Indian Problem"/Women and the New Deal/The New Deal in the West and the South/The New Deal and the National Economy/The New Deal and American PoliticsPatterns of Popular Culture: The Golden Age of Comic BooksWhere Historians Disagree: The New DealConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921-1941 Significant EventsThe Diplomacy of the New Era
Replacing the League/Debts and Diplomacy/Hoover and the World CrisisIsolationism and Internationalism
Depression Diplomacy/America and the Soviet Union/The Good Neighbor Policy/The Rise of Isolationism/The Failure of MunichFrom Neutrality to Intervention
Neutrality Tested/The Third-Term Campaign/Neutrality Abandoned/The Road to Pearl Harbor America in the World: The Sino-Japanese WarPatterns of Popular Culture: Orson Welles and the War of the WorldsWhere Historians Disagree: The Question of Pearl HarborConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Eight: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR Significant EventsWar on Two Fronts
Containing the Japanese/Holding Off the Germans/America and the HolocaustThe American People in Wartime
Prosperity/The War and the West/Labor and the War/Stabilizing the Boom/Mobilizing Production/Wartime Science and Technology/African Americans and the War/Native Americans and the War/Mexican-American War Workers/Women and Children at War/Wartime Life and Culture/The Internment of Japanese Americans/Chinese Americans and the War/The Retreat from ReformThe Defeat of the Axis
The Liberation of France/The Pacific Offensive/The Manhattan Project/Atomic WarfarePatterns of Popular Culture: The Age of SwingWhere Historians Disagree: The Decision to Drop the Atomic BombConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Nine: THE COLD WARSignificant EventsOrigins of the Cold War
Sources of Soviet-American Tension/Wartime Diplomacy/YaltaThe Collapse of the Peace
The Failure of Potsdam/The China Problem/The Containment Doctrine/The Marshall Plan/Mobilization at Home/The Road to NATO/Reevaluating Cold War PolicyAmerican Politics and Society After the War
The Problems of Reconversion/The Fair Deal Rejected/The Election of 1948/The Fair Deal Revived/The Nuclear AgeThe Korean War
The Divided Peninsula/From Invasion to Stalemate/Limited MobilizationThe Crusades Against Subversion
HUAC and Alger Hiss/The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case/McCarthyism/The Republican RevivalWhere Historians Disagree: Origins of the Cold WarWhere Historians Disagree: McCarthyismConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETYSignificant Events"The Economic Miracle"
Sources of Economic Growth/The Rise of the Modern West/The New Economics/Capital and LaborThe Explosion of Science and Technology
Medical Breakthroughs/Pesticides/Postwar Electronic Research/Postwar Computer Technology/Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles/The Space ProgramPeople of Plenty
The Consumer Culture/The Suburban Nation/The Suburban Family/The Birth of Television/Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism/Organized Society and Its Detractors/The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth/Rock 'n' RollThe "Other America"
On the Margins of the Affluent Society/Rural Poverty/The Inner CitiesThe Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
The Brown Decision and "Massive Resistance"/The Expanding Movement/Causes of the Civil Rights MovementEisenhower Republicanism
"What Was Good for . . . General Motors"/The Survival of the Welfare State/The Decline of McCarthyismEisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
Dulles and "Massive Retaliation"/France, America, and Vietnam/Cold War Crises/Europe and the Soviet Union/The U-2 CrisesThe American Environment: The Landscape and the AutomobilePatterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and DesiConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-One: THE ORDER OF LIBERALISM Significant EventsExpanding the Liberal State
John Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson/The Assault on Poverty/Cities, Schools, and Immigration/Legacies of the Great SocietyThe Battle for Racial Equality
Expanding Protests/A National Commitment/The Battle for Voting Rights/The Changing Movement/Urban Violence/Black Power/Malcolm X"Flexible Response" and the Cold War
Diversifying Foreign Policy/Confrontations with the Soviet Union/Johnson and the WorldThe Agony of Vietnam
The First Indochina War/Geneva and the Two Vietnams/America and Diem/From Aid to Intervention/The Quagmire/The War at HomeThe Traumas of 1968
The Tet Offensive/The Political Challenge/The King and Kennedy Assassinations/The Conservative Response Where Historians Disagree: The Vietnam CommitmentPatterns of Popular Culture: The Folk-Music RevivalAmerica in the World: 1968ConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Two: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITYSignificant EventsThe Youth Culture
The New Left/The CountercultureThe Mobilization of Minorities
Seeds of Indian Militancy/The Indian Civil Rights Movement/Latino Activism/Challenging the "Melting Pot" Ideal/Gay LiberationThe New Feminism
The Rebirth/Women's Liberation/Expanding Achievements/The Abortion ControversyEnvironmentalism in a Turbulent Society
The Science of Ecology/Environmental Advocacy/Environmental Degradation/Earth Day and BeyondNixon, Kissinger, and the War
Vietnamization/Escalation/"Peace with Honor"/Defeat in IndochinaNixon, Kissinger, and the World
China and the Soviet Union/The Problems of MultipolarityPolitics and Economics Under Nixon
Domestic Initiatives/From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court/The Election of 1972/The Troubled Economy/The Nixon ResponseThe Watergate Crisis
The Scandals/The Fall of Richard NixonPatterns of Popular Culture: Rock Music in the SixtiesThe American Environment: Silent SpringWhere Historians Disagree: Watergate Conclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Three: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGANSignificant EventsPolitics and Diplomacy After Watergate
The Ford Custodianship/The Trials of Jimmy Carter/Human Rights and National Interests/The Year of the HostagesThe Rise of the New American Right
The Sunbelt and Its Politics/Religious Revivalism/The Emergence of the New Right/The Tax Revolt/The Campaign of 1980The "Reagan Revolution"
The Reagan Coalition/Reagan in the White House/"Supply-Side" Economics/The Fiscal Crisis/Reagan and the World/The Election of 1984America and the Waning of the Cold War
The Fall of the Soviet Union/Reagan and Gorbachev/The Fading of the Reagan Revolution/The Election of 1988/The Bush Presidency/The Gulf War/The Election of 1992Patterns of Popular Culture: The MallConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Four: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATIONSignificant EventsA Resurgence of Partisanship
Launching the Clinton Presidency/The Republican Resurgence/The Election of 1996/Clinton Triumphant and Embattled/Impeachment, Acquittal, and Resurgence/The Election of 2000/The Second Bush PresidencyThe Economic Boom
From "Stagflaration" to Growth/The Two-Tiered Economy/GlobalizationScience and Technology in the New Economy
The Personal Computer/The Internet/Breakthroughs in GeneticsA Changing Society
The Graying of America/New Patterns of Immigration and Ethnicity/The Black Middle Class/Poor and Working-Class African Americans/Modern Plagues: Drugs and AIDS/The Decline in CrimeA Contested Culture
Battles over Feminism and Abortion/The Changing Left and the Growth of Environmentalism/The Fragmentation of Mass Culture/The "Culture Wars"The Perils of Globalization
Opposing the "New World Order"/Defending Orthodoxy/The Rise of Terrorism/A New Era?Patterns of Popular Culture: RapWhere Historians Disagree: Women's HistoryConclusionFor Further Reference

Appendixes
The United States
Topographical Map of the United States
The World
United States Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
Presidential Elections
Vice Presidents and Cabinet Members
Population of the United States, 1790-2000
H4>Employment, 1870-2000
Production, Trade, and Federal Spending/Debt, 1790-2000
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